Obama enraged homosexuals on Saturday when he failed to set a deadline, or state any kind of timetable, to keep his campaign promises of enacting legislation that would bring homosexuals closer to first-class citizenship: repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and enacting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

When presented with the choice between negotiating with raging queens furious at his temporizing and a raging wildfire, Obama chose the wildfire: